How'd I miss this community?

[sff_corgi_lj]

Whileaway - Feminist Discussion of Fantasy and Science-Fiction

And more to the point, I don't see any of my Flist as members. How did you miss this community? *grin*

As long as I'm at it, why don't you also take a look at Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia (est. 1994)? Among other points of interest, there's a really neat history page that seems at the same time to be sadly underpopulated.

Comments

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

Erm, my XY chromosomes?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Bah. Alan Alda, Phil Donahue, James Cameron, Joss Whedon. So there.

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

They're all on Whileaway?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Noooo, I'm saying your chromosomes are noooo excuse! ^_^

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

But I love Joanna Russ, et. al.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

There ya go, that's a start! ^_^

[really misses Bujold icon on bad hard drive]

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Erm.

As a general thing, I've always had a kneejerk avoidance to anything called "feminist". So many of the early feminists I met when I was impressionable were really female supremicists, and it made a really bad impression on me. I'm an equalist. 8/

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's what it's supposed to mean. :)

[phantom_wolfboy]

I don't look for communities. I wait for my friendslist to find them for me. :)

[hsiuism.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that looks like a cool comm. But I don't read as much fantasy/sci-fi as I used to, and most of it is YA fantasy. I don't recognize any of the authors mentioned (but maybe it'll make for a nice reading list!) It's a great idea though - there seems (to me, anyway) to be less willingness to discuss fantasy/sci-fi from a feminist angle than other genres.